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Post by Sparrow on Mar 21, 2009 9:25:04 GMT -5
"Maybe if we get enough another Weyr could be started." Aleyi shrugged. The Southern continent was full of settlements, even if it was currently lacking in a lot of major Holds. It would be nice to not have all the work on Nyocia's back.
"Yeah..." She really had no idea if the new males meant anything; the females she had suspected were just for a quick boost in the dragon population. If that was true though... would there come a time when Violets stopped being clutched? Aleyi hoped not. "Of course, the Charcoals are pretty grumpy too. Even at the hatching they looked ready to kill someone."
They were just the sort of dragon her brothers would like...
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Post by ShadowReine on Mar 21, 2009 21:30:09 GMT -5
B'can nodded. "Yeah, I don't envy their riders."
He grinned. "At least new colors don't come in whers. Whers are *already* grumpy."
A charcoal one would probably eat anyone but its handler that got anywhere close to it. Maybe even not accept a handler. Whers, after all, ddn't need one.
"And another Weyr would be good..." A pause. "Although if they send Brylorea to start it, I'm going with her." He was quite firm on that.
Whether things worked out between them or not...he didn't want to be the other side of Pern.
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Post by Sparrow on Mar 21, 2009 21:52:56 GMT -5
Aleyi nodded. "Yeah. I wonder why they haven't though... they've showed in flitters and dragons, anyways." Dragons seemed to look down on them, but whers weren't all that different. Aleyi was glad she wasn't a handler though, dragons were much better.
"Oh really?" Aleyi laughed. "I don't know where I'd go, but I'm sure it'll still be a while before there's much chance of that happening." By then, maybe, she'd have a good reason to go or stay.
"I guess I'd do what my friends did." She shrugged. Jerglith commented that he liked it fine here, but Aleyi figured he'd want to go wherever the Barreds did. With the right one, she wouldn't mind that too much.
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Post by ShadowReine on Mar 22, 2009 12:40:53 GMT -5
B'can blushed. "I can't get my mind off of Brylorea," he admitted. "Haven't been able to in months and with Apolloth reaching maturity, it's only gotten worse."
He was in love with her, or at least in lust...at his age, there was little difference. "But Voluspath...doesn't like tans. I don't know what will happen."
Maybe the gold would change her mind. Maybe Brylorea felt strongly enough for him to influence the young queen's flights. But was that a good thing?
A tan might not be able to sire a gold and they needed golds... Could he...share her?
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Post by Sparrow on Mar 22, 2009 16:39:57 GMT -5
"Aw." Aleyi grinned. "Too bad it'll still be a while before Voluspath Flies." A couple Turns, at least. B'can would have his work cut out for him keeping the Tan from not getting him in too deep with someone else. And, of course, there was always that chance that Apolloth wouldn't catch... that would be sad. For B'can, anyways.
"She doesn't?" Well, it wasn't like Aleyi would know, she didn't think she'd ever even had a chance to talk to Brylorea, much less time to learn anything like that about her dragon. "Nayarath seems to like Tans, even if she hasn't let one win yet."
Of course, then Wuith had thrown his chances away by catching Kelth. Jerglith had used that as one of his reasons to focus solely on one type of female.
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Post by ShadowReine on Mar 22, 2009 21:27:40 GMT -5
B'can shrugged. "Yeah, but Nayarath..." Is senior.
And he knew, he rationally knew that Bry might not be for him, that he might not be able to keep her. Or even touch her the way he wanted to.
After all, Apolloth could catch one of the violets...or even a barred or green...and complicate matters that way. He couldn't ask his tan not to...just as easy to hold the wind than hold back a male who chose to chase.
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Post by Sparrow on Mar 22, 2009 21:38:48 GMT -5
"Well, they're both Golds." Aleyi could think of a lot of ways to end B'can's sentence, but figured she could try to strike hope rather than doubts. Voluspath was Nayarath's daughter too, they had to share some traits... past both being vain queens. But every Gold was that.
"Guess all you can do though is wait and see... and see what you can do to influence the win." Aleyi grinned. She could try doing that herself, sure as Jerglith was of himself, the Blue could probably use all the help he could get. The problem was, as far as Aleyi knew, all the Barredriders weren't so interested in girls... so she could just as easily mess things up.
I wish you weren't so picky. Greenriders would surely be much easier to deal with.
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Post by ShadowReine on Mar 23, 2009 18:47:17 GMT -5
B'can nodded. "I'd say I wished Voluspath was a violet, but that's just silly."
If she had been, she would have been a different dragon and would probably have picked somebody other than Brylorea. Like, say, Gwen. No, wait, Tyrth had hatched first.
"If Bry still wants me when that time comes, then there's an influence. It's whether Voluspath will care about her rider or having as many eggs as possible. And really, I *shouldn't* try to influence. We need more queens. We need every dragon we can get."
Duty laid heavy on him for a moment, then he shrugged. "But Apolloth will chase all of the queens. It's in his makeup."
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Post by Sparrow on Mar 24, 2009 17:12:31 GMT -5
"Probably." Even if that made her harder for Apolloth to catch, what mattered more was that they had another Gold on Pern.
"Well, I guess." But hadn't he just said that it would be bad if they got too many dragons? Of course, there could probably never be too many queens... especially right now. "You don't sound all that convinced." Why was she talking to him about this? Relationships and queen Flights really weren't Aleyi's thing.
She grinned. "Lots of fun for you then." Especially since B'can wasn't sounding like he really expected Apolloth to catch Golds, much as he seemed to want the Tan to.
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Post by ShadowReine on Mar 24, 2009 21:30:31 GMT -5
Too many, yes, but right now, that was not one of Pern's problems. "I'll manage, no matter what. You have your eye on any of the green or barred riders?"
Of course, just because she had a blue didn't *necessarily* mean she liked other girls. It was only likely. B'can did think a couple of the barredriders were pretty enough. Not Bry, but not too bad to wake up next to.
And that was part of being a rider. At some point, he'd wake up next to another guy. Ugh, but, well...he could blame the green!
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Post by Sparrow on Mar 25, 2009 16:45:14 GMT -5
"Pfff, no." Aleyi shook her head, grinning. "I just figure I'll leave Jerglith in charge of that." There were, of course, some cute riders out there... but Aleyi had never been one to actually go after people. And when it came to dragons, she doubted there was a lot that could be done. Jerglith would chase who he wanted and catch who he could, and that probably wouldn't lead to any particularly steady relationships. Why worry about them?
"At least I don't have to really worry about ending up with guys." There was only one male Barredrider at the moment, so obviously they weren't going to get many of them. So as long as Jerglith kept with his decision to not chase Greens... "Not that there's anything wrong with them."
It just seemed strange. Aleyi was friends with a lot of guys, always had been, and hadn't really thought about the possibility of bedding them until she came to the Weyr and saw all the male Greenriders. That was something that didn't work so well with her dreams of riding a Blue... until she got the one Blue who didn't want to chase them.
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Post by ShadowReine on Mar 25, 2009 22:34:41 GMT -5
B'can, suspicion confirmed, just smiled. "I'm hoping not to end up with a guy myself. Maybe I can convince Apolloth barreds are better than greens?"
It would certainly help for avoiding that particular awkwardness. "I occasionally have a nightmare about some male greenrider falling for me hard." It wasn't just that he wanted to avoid the physical act.
He wanted to avoid *entanglements* with the homosexual males in the Weyr, for his sake and theirs.
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Post by Sparrow on Mar 26, 2009 15:52:37 GMT -5
"Maybe. But he'll have Jerglith to compete with chasing Barreds." Apolloth was a Tan, but that wouldn't have much effect on Jerglith's determination to win. Smaller males tended to catch smaller females, anyways.
Aleyi grinned. "That would be... interesting." At least she didn't have to worry about many of the male Greenriders falling for her. "I can't say I've ever even thought about that happening to me though." Many of them liked both genders anyways, but Aleyi doubted they could have a serious preference with how often Greens flew and how random the winners often were.
"I think that having nightmares about that would almost be stranger than it actually happening, anyways." The real thing would be awkward... but dreaming about it sure struck Aleyi as odd.
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Post by ShadowReine on Mar 26, 2009 20:52:13 GMT -5
B'can nodded. "And a blue is probably more likely to catch a barred anyway...and certainly a green. Probably won't stop him trying, though."
At least he hadn't tried yet, but soon...soon enough. "It's not that I have a *problem* with them, just as long as they remember I like girls."
After all, Aleyi was obviously gay too. she'd as much as admitted to it, and he liked her...had he had a problem, she would be great help getting rid of it.
"Greens only really pick guys who don't much like girls...although with all the female blue and brownriders..." Now, he hadn't thought of that. That a gay guy might be as uncomfortable waking up next to a woman. "We all have to deal with it."
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Post by Sparrow on Mar 26, 2009 21:04:43 GMT -5
Aleyi shrugged. "You never know." But she agreed with B'can. Blues were just better. "And no, probably not." She didn't know what stopped Jerglith from chasing Greens, and doubted there were many dragons out there with as much determination. Plenty just went after everything, or so she had observed.
"Yeah." The same basically went for her. "I just wouldn't want to get stuck with them." Aleyi had no plans for getting stuck with anyone right now, male or female.
"I think Greens just pick whoever they feel like." Mostly like she expected most dragons would. Plenty of people said that different colors had a different bias towards sexuality, but how could they tell when they'd only just hatched, and never even met the person before? There was a lot she didn't understand about Impression... but that was one thing that simply didn't make any sense.
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Post by ShadowReine on Mar 27, 2009 13:21:00 GMT -5
"It was explained to *me* that greens go for female minds, either women or men who are feminine. And as *most* feminine men tend to be gay, that's where the greenriders are gay thing comes from." He considered that. "Do you have like...guy-ish traits?"
He didn't know her well enough to know.. "Not that I care that much. I don't care why Apolloth picked me, he did, and nobody else could. And he's the best dragon on Pern. I mean, are any of the other tans such a lovely color?"
You couldn't really compare a tan with a blue in terms of looks and shades. They were even proportioned a bit differently.
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Post by Sparrow on Mar 27, 2009 17:18:43 GMT -5
Aleyi shrugged. "I guess they could." But there were still some Greenriders out there that didn't strike her as being the slightest bit feminine. She raised her eyebrows at B'can's question. "A figure a guy would be better at recognizing that than me." What an odd thing to be asked! Even Brooke couldn't help but gurgle a little.
"Exactly." Jerglith didn't really know why- or at least couldn't explain why- he had picked Aleyi. Why should humans be able to figure it out? "He is a nice color. I like Jerglith's, he's, like, bluer than all the Blues."
Her fire-lizards were sort of the same, all very much just their color. It was kind of funny, now that she thought about it.
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Post by ShadowReine on Mar 27, 2009 22:55:45 GMT -5
B'can grinned. "He is very much the classic shade, isn't he. Apolloth's...very rich for a tan, almost gold-ish. Unfortunately, he is very, very aware of exactly how handsome he is."
Oh yes, his dragon had a huge ego. "It doesn't matter. They pick the person they like, is how I've always seen it, with maybe some shading based off of color. I mean...nobody but Apolloth could have picked me."
Right?
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Post by Sparrow on Mar 28, 2009 9:07:37 GMT -5
"Really?" Aleyi would have to see Apolloth again before she could agree with that- she always thought he was a very pale Tan. "So I guess his only problem is getting the females to realize that too?" She grinned. It sort of sounded like Brooke, except she had to, of course, attract males.
"Yup." Aleyi couldn't imagine having any dragon other than Jerglith. There had been a few from his same clutch that Impressed to people who had already had dragons though- how did that work? People said that the dragon that came to them was the only one... so what did that mean? She frowned slightly, thinking about this.
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Post by ShadowReine on Mar 28, 2009 12:12:16 GMT -5
OOC: Okay, so I can't remember what shade my own dragon is *fudges*
"He wants the Weyr to realize it. I think he may be the most ambitious dragon at Nyocia." B'can actually blushed a little bit. His dragon wanted to be Weyrleader.
He didn't, not really. Wingleader, sure. Weyrleader? The idea scared him more than a little, which was, perhaps, why he didn't want to admit Apolloth might catch a gold some day.
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